Outreach Committee Annual Report
2022, Joan Wetmore & Stephanie French
Because Covid and political events were so fraught with strife, we wanted to reach out to people who shared our concerns but might not know about us or how to reach us. The Outreach Committee focused in part on Outreach quite literally. The Committee has updated and monitored publication of meeting times and locations in the local press. With design help from Marie Leonard, they produced a simple card announcing times and location that has been posted on local bulletin boards and distributed at the Visitors Center, together with other information and brochures. Outreach provided a peace dove float in the Easton Christmas parade, helped strengthen the partnership with Asbury United Methodist Church, staffed a table at the Multi-Cultural Festival, and publicized the Thanksgiving meal program in the Star Democrat. Design is underway of a series of wooden signs (or banners?) listing Quaker testimonies to be placed below the Meeting sign on Washington Street. The signs will be rotated throughout the year. We are looking for meeting support for the Quaker testimony signs. If you haven’t seen the proposal, Stephanie French can show it to you on her computer.